{"id":602093,"date":"2021-07-25T10:20:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T14:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=602093"},"modified":"2021-07-25T10:21:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T14:21:01","slug":"is-anyone-watching-olympics-tv-viewers-drop-to-33-year-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-anyone-watching-olympics-tv-viewers-drop-to-33-year-low\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Anyone Watching? Olympics TV Viewers Drop To 33-Year Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fis-anyone-watching-olympics-tv-viewers-drop-to-33-year-low%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=602093&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Olympics.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Did you watch the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympians. No? Well, you weren\u2019t alone.<\/p>\n<p>Just 16.7 million Americans tuned in to NBC\u2019s broadcast of the ceremony, the smallest U.S. television audience to watch the event in the past 33 years, according to preliminary data from Comcast-owned NBCUniversal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFriday\u2019s audience reflects a steep drop, despite difficult comparisons with previous opening ceremonies when viewers had fewer streaming options,\u201d Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/1-tokyo-olympics-opening-drew-231950728.html\">reported<\/a>. \u201cThe Tokyo opener TV audience declined 37% from 2016, when 26.5 million people watched the Rio de Janeiro Games opener, and 59% from 2012, when 40.7 million people watched the London ceremony.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was the lowest audience for the opening ceremony since the 1988 Seoul Games, which attracted 22.7 million TV viewers. It was also lower than the 1992 Barcelona Games, when 21.6 million people tuned in, according to Nielsen data,\u201d Reuters wrote.<\/p>\n<p>And even though the stadium where the opening ceremony took place was built to hold tens of thousands of people, just 950 attended amid the COVID-19 scarred games.<\/p>\n<p>But NBC Sports said its online audience grew: The streaming audience on NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app rose 72% over the opener of the 2016 games, and 76% from the opening ceremony of the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith approximately 17 million viewers, the opening ceremony delivered a Multiplatform dominant audience in a vastly different media landscape from 5 years ago,\u201d NBC said. \u201cIt was the most unique opening ceremony ever\u2014 designed to meet this moment of global unity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And the network noted that the ceremony was \u201cthe second-most watched standalone primetime entertainment telecast since the pandemic began in March, excluding post- Superbowl coverage,\u201d The Hill <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/564704-us-viewership-of-olympic-opening-hits-33-year-low\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s hope American viewers are tuning in now, as the U.S. swimmers on Sunday \u201craced to their best-ever start at an Olympics, winning medals in every event of the first finals session, including the first U.S. gold medal of the games in any sport,\u201d The Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/tokyo-olympics-us-swimming-medals-11627196391\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"24\">\n<p><em>Team USA\u2019s six medals\u2014one gold, two silver and three bronze\u2014are the most it\u2019s ever won on the first day of Olympic swimming finals. It\u2019s even more impressive considering that prior to 1984, countries could send three swimmers per event instead of two, allowing possible podium sweeps. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The team made the podium in events in which it wasn\u2019t supposed to medal, said U.S. men\u2019s team assistant coach Jack Bauerle. \u201cIt\u2019s obviously a really proud moment,\u201d he said. \u201cI can\u2019t really feel anything, I\u2019m so happy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Things started with a bang in the men\u2019s 400-meter individual medley as Chase Kalisz, a former world champion in the event, won gold in 4:09.42. His former college teammate and training partner at the University of Georgia Jay Litherland surged in the final 75 meters of the freestyle leg to touch second in 4:10.28.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>NBC plans to air what it says is an \u201cunprecedented\u201d 7,000 hours of Olympics coverage across its multiple television networks and Peacock, its new streaming service.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you watch the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympians. No? 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